Daguerreotype portrait of a man in a dark coat – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Daguerreotype portrait of a man in a dark coat in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Daguerreotype portrait of a man in a dark coat
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Few people in 1844 could sit for a likeness, so a daguerreotype like this one of a man in a dark coat records a privilege as much as a face. The process, announced in France in 1839, fixed an image directly onto a silver-coated copper plate, and exposures often ran for several minutes, which explains the stillness in the sitter's expression. Its mirror-like surface reflects the viewer's own movement when the plate is tilted, a quality that set daguerreotypes apart from the paper prints that would later dominate. Portraits of this era are valued today for the crisp detail they hold and for showing how ordinary people presented themselves to the camera.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,303 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 382_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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